Shanghaie'd

Things are going well for the young ship’s mate Willy. He has just completed his exams with excellent results and, what is more, he has become engaged to his great love, Lilly, a shipowner’s daughter. Her scorned suitor,

Children of Shanghai

Bear Grylls narrates the story of the first foster children in China's 3,000-year history. British former footballer Robert Glover moved to Shanghai with his wife and six young children in 1998 and persuaded the Chinese

Shanghai Women

After Women’s Story, Peng returns to the most straightforward representation of women’s issues in Shanghai Women, a film about three rural women. As the first work in Peng’s Shanghai Trilogy, Shanghai Women describes the

Shanghai Gypsy

The main protagonists of the film are members of the gypsy family Mirga. Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establi

Shanghai Love Market

Shanghai has a park where parents can match-make their unwed children. This is just one love story in a city of 20 million lovers.

The Ship from Shanghai

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.

Great Shanghai 1937

In August 1937, Japanese troops occupied Shanghai. Three leaders in Shanghai go their separate ways: Jinrong Huang never sees other people; Xiaolin Zhang makes a great fortune and Yuesheng Du leaves for HongKong. Japanes

Shanghai Heroic Story

Through much blood, sweat and tears, a young man rises to the top of Shanghai's secret society, but his moment of glory is brief compared to what he has endured.

Shanghai Girls

In Shanghai in the early 90s, a high school girl's choir achieved brief fame for their singing talents on the national stage. They were the promise of youth in a time of change, when society was transforming as rapidly a

Scarlett, Shanghai & Me

A story about coming to the end of your journey as an expat in China, told through the lens of the films that inspired us.

Nightfall in Shanghai

Tombée de nuit sur Shanghaï is Akerman’s contribution to the collective film L’état du monde (2007). Consists of little more than long-held vid shots of Shanghai skyscrapers and a floating boat, bearing giant video displ

Shanghai 1976

Shanghai 1976 is a moving story that tells the tale of a forbidden love and of the loss of innocence in Shanghai, China, in the turbulent year 1976. Four young people come of age and fall in love against the backdrop of

Shanghai Moon

In 1937 fighting erupted between Japanese and Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge. A team of Japanese spies broadcasting radio programs to promote pro-Japanese sentiment were searching for a Chinese speaking announce

The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.

Hip Hop: Shanghai

Dancers move through everyday city spaces: shopfronts, intersections and construction zones, treating Shanghai's streets as an impromptu set.

A Shanghai Bride

Two slackers that struggle to survive in the streets of modern China will face many problems when they are hired by a ghost to take a coffin, stolen from the local cemetery, across the big city of Shanghai in order to re

Tod über Shanghai

Daughter of Shanghai

A documentary about the life of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break into the West.

In Shanghai

A short essay on the hidden realities beneath the surface of Shanghai.

Subcultural Revolution: Shanghai

Documentary about Chinese noise band Torturing Nurse.